Suzanne Singer
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Dr. Suzanne Springer is a Native American scholar, scientist, and engineer in the renewable energy sector. She has worked with Indigenous communities throughout her career to help eliminate energy disparities and support the transition to renewable energy. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Native Renewables, where, under her leadership, she installed over 40 kW of residential solar, and over 100 hours of education and workforce training have been delivered to Native communities.
Joshua, O., Bahk, J-H., Singh, R., ... Singer, S., et al., 2011. Erratum: “High efficiency semimetal/semiconductor nanocomposite thermoelectric materials,” Journal of Applied Physics, 110(5). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3630947
Koh, Y. K., Singer, S. L., Kim, W. et al., 2009. Comparison of the 3w method and time-domain thermoreflectance for measurements of the cross-plane thermal conductivity of epitaxial semiconductors, Journal of Applied Physics, 105(5). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3078808
Kin, W., Singer, S. L., Majumdar, A., et al., 2008. Reducing Thermal Conductivity of Crystalline Solids at High Temperature Using Embedded Nanostructure, Nano Letters, 8(7). https://doi.org/10.1021/n;080189t
Kim, W., Singer, S. L., & Majumdar, A., 2007. Tuning thermal transport in crystalline solids using embedded nanoparticles, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 92(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/92/1/012085
Kim, W., Singer, S. L., Majumdar, A., et al., 2006. Cross-plane lattice and electric thermal conductivites of ErAs: InGaAs/InGaAiAs superlattices, Applied Physics Letters, 88(44). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207829
Dr. Suzanne Singer is a member of the Navajo (Dine) tribe. She grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona, and attended the University of Arizona for her BS in Mechanical Engineering, where she was involved in the American Indian Science and Engineering Society and NASA Space Grant Research studying heat transfer effects in a simulated electronics cooling system. She holds an MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in Microscale Heat Transfer. Her PhD was funded by the NSF and the Ford Foundation, with her dissertation entitled “Thermal transport in nanostructured thin films for thermoelectric applications.” She co-founded the American Indian Graduate and Engineering Society chapter at Berkeley.
Dr. Singer previously worked as a System Thermal & Mechanical Engineering Intern at Intel, analyzing the thermal properties of CPUs and other server components under stress (2004). During graduate school at UC Berkeley, Dr. Singer worked as a Graduate Student Researcher at UC Berkeley (2004-2009) and a Solar Technologies Division Graduate Student Intern at Sandia National Laboratories (2008)> As a Graduate Student Researcher, she researched thermal transport as an approach to increasing thermoelectric device material efficiency. With Sandia National Laboratories, Dr. Singer studied heat transfer in photovoltaics, which consisted of field testing, grid installation, and performance characterization.
Dr. Singer joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2011 as an Energy & Engineering Postdoctoral Researcher before being promoted to Energy Systems & Thermal Analyst in 2014. During her postdoc research, Dr. Singer utilized her previous skills and knowledge to recommend lab research that would strengthen their renewable energy program. She also led efforts for the organization's tribal energy assessment. When she was promoted, her scope expanded to analyze element and heat transfer models using various computational engineering skills. Dr. Singer also developed charts and diagrams to communicate complex energy system reactions. She worked for the laboratory until 2019, when she started at Tosidoh LLC as Principal (2020-2023). In the role, she supported program and project management to enhance tribal energy. Dr. Singer was also a Board Member at the Center for Sustainable Energy during this time.
Dr. Singer currently provides engineering and energy consulting and is also the Founder and Executive Director of Native Renewables. She draws on her extensive experiences in the sector and as an Indigenous woman to address energy equity for Native American families through renewable energy programs. Under her leadership, staff has doubled, over 40 kW of residential solar has been installed, and over 100 hours of education and workforce training has been delivered to Native communities. She was awarded the 2019 US Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Entrepreneurship Award and was selected as a 2021 Echoing Green Fellow.
Our Team. (n.d.). Native Renewables. Retrieved May 8, 2024 from https://www.nativerenewables.org/who-we-are/our-team/
Our Team [Photo]. (n.d.). Native Renewables. Retrieved May 8, 2024 from https://www.nativerenewables.org/who-we-are/our-team/
Suzanne L. Singer. (n.d.). LinkedIn. Retrieved May 8, 2024 from https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannesinger/
Our Team [Photo]. (n.d.). Native Renewables. Retrieved May 8, 2024 from https://www.nativerenewables.org/who-we-are/our-team/